Oroqen language
Oroqen | |
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Native to | China |
Region | Inner Mongolia and Heilongjiang |
Native speakers | 1,200 (2009)[1] |
Tungusic
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 |
orh |
Glottolog |
oroq1238 [2] |
Oroqen (also known as Orochon, Oronchon, Olunchun, Elunchun, Ulunchun) is a Northern Tungusic language spoken in the People's Republic of China. Dialects are Gankui and Heilongjiang. Gankui is the standard dialect.[3] It is spoken by the Oroqen people of Inner Mongolia (predominantly the Oroqin Autonomous Banner) and Heilongjiang in Northeast China.
Currently, the Oroqen language is still unwritten. However, the majority of the Oroqen are capable of reading and writing Chinese and some can also speak the Daur language.
Geographic distribution
Oroqen is spoken in the following counties of China (Ethnologue).
- Heilongjiang province
- Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region
- Hulun Buir: Butha Autonomous Banner and Oroqen Autonomous Banner
Notes
- ↑ "Oroqen". Ethnologue. Retrieved 2018-05-07.
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Oroqen". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ↑ Raymond G. Gordon Jr., ed. 2005, Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 15th edition. Dallas Summer Institute of Linguistics.
External links
- Oroqen Vocabulary List (from the World Loanword Database)
- Oroqen Swadesh vocabulary list of basic words (from Wiktionary's Swadesh list appendix)
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